The Mask

The Mask - 22x29 cm Mixed media (print, ink and water colour) on paper

Time for some experimenting ... and some old techniques!  It is always inspiring to start something new (new technique, new sketchbook, new pens or pencils) and it is also always comforting to use an old way of working. So today I did both at the same time. Experimenting with my printer (it must be somehow more useful in my paintings...) and worked in one of my old favourite techniques: Water colour.... and :  Liked it :)

Under the blue line

Sketchbook "Under The Blue Line" 

SOOOOO nice to do some drawings again....

Survived The Wolves….

'Survived the Wolves'  Mixed media on collage 29x41cm

'The Judge'

'The judge' mixed media 21x29cm

Black Thoughts

Black Thoughts   Mixed media and collage on paper   29x41cm

My first painting after such a long time... and probably also the last one before the semesters starts again :) 

It is a bit different than my work usually I think, maybe because of my 'shade and shadow studies for interiors' Also I think I enjoyed to paint/draw it slowly without rush and the shading was more or less a meditative exercise !

Bla bla bla

Bla bla bla   Mixed media and collage in sketchbook

What I really like about sketchbooks is, that there is no fear.... the act of drawing or painting is more a playing than a planing..... The result is then often so different than expected with new ideas coming up while playing !

Unspoken Words

Unspoken Words   Mixed media in sketchbook

Dreaming Time

Dreaming Time   Mixed media and collage in sketchbook

I have worked the last couple of days in my sketchbook, but I am not really in the rhythm to paint, to write, to post ...... The internet makes a lot of things easier.... but on the same time makes also a lot of work ! I don't know how a lot of you do it ....
Sometimes I have the impression that the action around the painting ( taking a photo, resizing etc etc etc...) is more work than the actual painting :))

 Anyway, this painting is about  what I do at night :) I go and visit my old life !

Red Scarf

Red Scarf   Sketch  15x30cm

Element Fire

Element Fire   Mixed media and collage on old paper   29x43cm.

One more painting from last week, and I am aware now, that I will also have to paint element earth and element air now :) It seems after a long time not painting I find it easiest just to paint faces ... before a theme really evolves. But the coming week I will concentrate on my sketchbooks again to loosen up a bit ! I don't like when my paintings become stiff and somehow dead. The best medicine for that is to work with collages in my case or trying to "fill up a sketchbook the day" ;-)
Also I gave a little interview at Red Bubble the other day if you are interested. Amazing how few things get clear when you write about them ...

Portrait

Portrait   Acrylic on collage and recycled paper.  29×41cm.

Just playing with colour....

Europe 2

Europe 2   Mixed media and collage on recycled paper. 29x43cm.

Ready

Ready   Mixed media on recycled paper  29x43cm.

Well.... this is the first post after half a year !!!
I have been so busy with my new studies (Interior Design) that I just didn't have any computer time for myself and no time at all for painting !

 I missed it a lot....

So this is the first painting after such a long 'non painting time' in my semester break.

I won't be able to paint a lot in that time, but I promise the next time at least I will let you know before I go ! At least now I know that next to studies, there is NO time for anything else :) I hope you are all well and busy doing your creative works ! I will come and visit the next couple of days !!!

Red Hair

Red Hair  Mixed media in sketchbook 

the sisters

The sisters   Mixed media on recycled paper   29x43cm.

This painting has been inspired by the Greek movie Attenberg that I saw the other day. A very intense movie. The two women where actually not sisters but friends .... but very close.

The mixed media in this one are coffee ( as usual...) mascara, shoe polish, ink and a little bit of acrylic !

grown up 3

Grown up 3   Mixed media on recycled paper  29x41cm.

Fall

Fall  Mixed media and collage on recycled paper  29x41cm.

The third painting after my 3 weeks break, and it is the first one, that I am happy with ! 

Like with everything, painting needs exercise and work and work and work :) I heart from one artist (Horst Janssen) that he would draw first thing in the morning 50 (!!!!) hands, before he would even start to do his own work for the day .... Just to loosen up. I think I need to get back to my small sketchbook to loosen up again and be more experimental ! How do you loosen up ? 

portrait of a woman

Grown up 2   Mixed media on paper   29x41cm.

Grown up

Grown up   Mixed media ( Acrylic and collage ) on linen   51x51cm.

Today I was working on canvas again ! Which I normally  like... But after all these months working on paper, I was  missing the 'liberty of the paper', because  it gives you the feeling , that it is not 'that important'! The difference is also that the canvas doesn't give you as much  resistance like  the wood behind the paper does ! 

.... But I like the linen colour and also that you can see the work without having a glass in between !

Ageing

Ageing   mixed media on paper 29x41cm.